Hahahah. Op if I didn’t know better I would have thought I wrote this post. Agree with everything you said.

I didn’t read these books as a kid or teen, but as an adult reading them with/to my kid (from the age 7 to 9). And he loved them at first. But somewhere around book 8 he asked if it was going to be just like the other 7 books? And once we read it and it was a copy paste of the other 7, he said he didn’t want to read anymore.

I do wish we had skipped to the last one but when a 9 y/o is pointing out the writing flaws, you have a problem.

But I will say the Netflix series did a great job of streamlining the books.